Creative Imagination in Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi; Bollingen Series XCI
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, viii + 406pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, notes & appendices, List of works cited, Index. Colour frontispiece, 1 colour & 3 b&w plates. A serious and profound study of the life and thought of the Spanish-born Muslim mystic, scholar, poet, writer and philosopher Ibn 'Arabi (1165– 1240), a Sufi whose work is said to have "encompassed both Sunni and Shia identity and thought." Corbyn focuses particularly on "creative imagination and mystical experience" in Arabi's thought, and explores the differences between exoteric and esoteric thought within Islam. The very faintest of shelf wear, top edge dusty, pencil notes to rear blank endpaper - else a tight, bright and unmarked VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket is lightly worn, a bit of edge chafing and tiny chips and tears, clipped. Now protected in removable mylar cover). Item #65537
ISBN: 0691098522
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